Rose O'Connor started her story telling life at National Public Radio. The first on-air director of "Morning Edition", she also worked on "Folk Festival USA", "Jazz Alive" and contributed to "All Things Considered". In 2011, her stage musical "Dogs! It's the Musical!" had its world premiere in a Silver Moon Theatre production in Sonoma, California. "Mutants", a re-telling of the musical's story, is her first novel.